Delmarva Christian swim teams confident at the break

Hosting an ESIAC quad meet Dec. 19 proved to be an early present for Delmarva Christian’s swim teams.

The boys scooped up their first two wins of the year by besting Sts. Peter & Paul 41-4 and Salisbury School 39-15. Salisbury Christian’s talented team got the best of the Royals 49-31.

“Tonight, we just got every guy qualified for states,” said senior Cole Parker. “Last year, almost everybody went.”

A legend was born during the quad meet when the 200 freestyle relay team qualified. Trax Rogers was the second swimmer to leap off the blocks, and if you can believe it, the junior had just wrapped up swimming the 500.

“The 500 is distance, a long-haul race, and Trax gave it his all in that race and turned around and did the relay right after,” said coach Laurel Kamosa. “He did great, and they ended up qualifying for states at the exact time, which was amazing.”

Diving over to the girls, they got a taste of each outcome in the quad meet, edging out the Dragons 39-36, tying the Sabres 31-31 and losing to the Jaguars 66-16. The girls stand at 2-3-1 with just three meets left when they come back from their January term.

“We're doing really good,” said senior Libby Dawson. “We're pushing ourselves to be the best we can with limited practice in limited time.”

At 2-5, the lads have a bit more ground to make up, but lucky for them, one of the three meets is a tri-meet and another is a quad meet.

“We've had our ups and downs a little bit, and like Libby said with limited practices and stuff, I think that's made it a little bit tougher, but other than that, I think all the guys at least have been pushing themselves, and that's just great to see,” Parker said.

“We've got a lot of good swimmers,” Kamosa said. “We're working on technique, we're working on getting faster, and we're definitely seeing that with the kids. At the end of the day, we want to have fun and have a good time, but make strides along the way, so I think we're doing that.”

Gains this season are a result of buy-in from the older swimmers who have seen the program grow year by year.

“Freshman year to now, the growth is insane, and just building the program more and more each year is just the biggest thing we can do,” Dawson said. “Building it more in our school and putting more of a light on swimming at Delmarva Christian.”

“The confidence is definitely building with the kids,” Kamosa said. “They're building that camaraderie with each other, and with the other teams as well. I really appreciate their sportsmanship with the other schools.”